[Boatanchors] Valiant on 160, Antenna Opinion

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I agree with Bob

The 450 ohm ladder line Zepp works well, is cheap to build, can be soldered together in 30 minutes and has a bit of gain on 75 AM.

Enjoy

Ron W6OM

> 
> From: Bob Wilder <bwils at bellsouth.net>
> Date: 2005/08/12 Fri AM 11:38:37 EDT
> To: "Freeberg, Scott (STP)" <Scott.Freeberg at guidant.com>
> CC: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Valiant on 160, Antenna Opinion
> 
> I have a suggestion that may help.  Replace the 135ft of wire with 450 Ohm 
> ladder line.  Short each end and open the center on one side and feed with 
> 450 Ohm ladder line and cut the other side in the center and leave the 
> other side open.  Feed the ladder line feed to a 4:1 balun to your 

> tuner.  What you will end up with will be  linear loaded double extended 
> Zepp for 160-10 meters that will show gain.  I have used them for years and 
> they work better that a dipole.
> 
> 
> 
> At 11:10 AM 8/12/2005 -0400, Todd, KA1KAQ wrote:
> 
> >On 8/12/05, Freeberg, Scott (STP) <Scott.Freeberg at guidant.com> wrote:
> ><snip>
> > > To that end, I'm thinking about adding as much wire to the antenna that 
> > I can to get closer to 160.  Its currently an 80 meter dipole around 
> > 135', fed with 450 ohm ladder line.  I use it as an allband antenna with 
> > the Johnson KW Matchbox.   I might be able to add 30' to 40' to each end, 
> > resulting in more like 200'.  While I realize it isn't 260', 200' is alot 
> > closer to 260' than 135' is.  Then maybe the Heathkit SA2060A will have a 
> > better chance of tuning.
> > >
> > > Does this sound reasonable, anyone doing this, or am I terribly confused?
> >
> >Scott -
> >
> >How about using the space for a long, end fed wire? You're already
> >using open wire feeders, so it should give you a good stretch of wire
> >in the air.
> >
> >de Todd/'Boomer'  KA1KAQ
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